John Selye

* Vienna, January 26, 1907 – † Montreal, October 15, 1982 / physician, internist, university ; teacher ; ; His father was Hungarian, his mother was Austrian. He spent his childhood in Komárom, graduating from the Benedictine Gymnasium in Komárom in 1924. He also studied in Paris and Rome, and finally obtained a medical degree from the German section of Charles University in Prague in 1929 and a doctorate in chemistry. From 1929 to 1931, he taught at the University of Prague and did research at the Institute of Pathology, then went to the USA with a Rockefeller scholarship, and later to Canada, where he became a research physician at McGill University. Between 1945 and 1976, he was a professor at the University of Montreal and director of the institute he founded. He dealt with endocrinology and the problems of cardiac arrest. He is considered the developer of stress theory. He published his first relevant study in 1936. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times, but ultimately did not win it. The Hungarian high school in Komárom and the first Hungarian university in the Hungarian Highlands also bear his name. ; ; His main works: ; Életünk a stress, 1964, ; Álomtól a ekszésig, 1967, ; In vivo, 1970, ; Stressz distressz lékül, 1976.